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Can Stranger Things replicate Harry Potter and save the West End?

The production team behind the most anticipated show of the year tell Annabel Nugent about what makes ‘The First Shadow’ so different from the usual screen-to-stage adaptation, and why they hope the ‘Stranger Things’ monsters will frighten away the curse of Covid from the West End

The Independent UK

The week in theatre: Infinite Life; The Homecoming; Pacific Overtures – review

Chronic illness is captured to extraordinary effect in Annie Baker’s slow yet absorbing new play. Elsewhere, snarling Pinter lacks bite, while the songs eclipse all in rarely revived Sondheim

The Guardian - UK

The Enormous Crocodile review – Roald Dahl’s dastardly reptile stalks the stage

This production for over-fours has clever touches, lively performances and splendid puppets but the songs and the story grow monotonous

The Guardian - UK

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The Homecoming review – Pinter’s timeless study of toxic masculinity

Playing a man meeting his daughter-in-law for the first time, Jared Harris brings out the dark comedy in Pinter’s snapshot of misogyny

The Guardian - UK

Pacific Overtures review – small Sondheim is beautifully done

Co-production with Osaka company brings 1976 study of American imperialism arriving in Japan to subtle, funny life

The Guardian - UK

I've watched Stranger Things prequel stage play The First Shadow, and it's a must-see before season 5

I've seen the play Stranger Things: The First Shadow – here's my spoiler-free take of why you need to see it.

TechRadar

The best (non-festive) shows to book this Christmas from Stranger Things to David Tennant's Macbeth

Want to hit the theatre but sick of the seasonal fare? Look no further...

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A Christmas Carol: this safe bet should still startle us – past, present or future

There may be comfort in the retelling of Dickens’ familiar tale, but the best adaptations show the imagination to still surprise

The Guardian - UK

The Inquiry review – drama about a Whitehall cover-up hints at deeper stories left untold

Despite fine acting, Harry Davies’ political thriller about a contaminated water scandal fails to plumb the depths of its characters

The Guardian - UK

Lyonesse review – Kristin Scott Thomas charms in messy #MeToo tale

Starry cast including Lily James and Doon Mackichan are tossed around in a plot that never gets hold of its many concerns

The Guardian - UK

Pygmalion review – Patsy Ferran and Bertie Carvel don’t find play’s heart

This Shaw revival has wonderful moments but there is little spark between Eliza Doolittle and Henry Higgins

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: Grenfell: In the Words of Survivors; Cuckoo; The Sound of Music – review

Gillian Slovo’s new verbatim play about the 2017 tragedy is overpowering theatre that doubles as activism; a comedy of iPhone-fixated family dysfunction is hilariously relatable; and the hills are alive again

The Guardian - UK

The Sound of Music review – climbs ev’ry mountain, ticks ev’ry box

Gina Beck is radiant as Maria in this immaculate and impish production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s musical

The Guardian - UK

Cuckoo review – springy dialogue lifts slow study of a modern family

Three generations of women in a Merseyside house banter, bicker and disappear into their smartphones in this nuanced play from Michael Wynne

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Mrs Doubtfire: The New Musical Comedy review – all energy, no emotion

The cast do their exuberant best but this bland, by-the-numbers retread of the 1990s film lacks feeling and adds nothing original beyond a reference to Love Island

Evening Standard

The best theatre to see in September in London, from Waiting for Godot to Giant

We’ve picked out London’s top stage performances to watch this month

The Guardian - UK

School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play review – clever comedy leaves a stinging afterburn

Jocelyn Bioh’s bitingly funny and sometimes heartbreaking play transposes relatable high-school movie tropes to 1980s Ghana to explore beauty standards and colourism

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: Romeo and Juliet; When Winston Went to War With the Wireless; Groundhog Day – review

Danger stalks the radiant lovers in Rebecca Frecknall’s tumultuous, twilit Romeo and Juliet; a 1920s battle for the soul of BBC radio couldn’t be more timely; and Groundhog Day, once more with feeling

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When Winston Went to War With the Wireless review – radio is the star of BBC crisis drama

Jack Thorne’s dramatisation of the power play between the UK government and the broadcaster in 1920s Britain is pacy and evocative

The Guardian - UK

Groundhog Day review – repeat production makes for guaranteed entertainment

A revival of the musical at the same venue where it premiered combines clever staging, impeccable performances and Tim Minchin’s lyrical brilliance into a reassuringly familiar and enjoyable package

The Guardian - UK

Brokeback Mountain review – perfectly pitched staging of the heartbreaking love story

The desolately poignant tale is brought into stark relief in Jonathan Butterell’s production through Eddi Reader’s beautiful vocals and a compelling cast

The Independent UK

Brokeback Mountain review: This unsubtle adaptation leaves its stars stranded

Mike Faist and Lucas Hedges are underserved by a clunky production as Annie Proulx’s story reaches the stage

Bristol Post

Mother Goose review: Ian McKellen shines as new pantomime spares no remorse for Tory Britain

The production proved pantomimes don't have to be just for Christmas

The Guardian - UK

Richard III review – Adjoa Andoh’s maverick reimagining drags

The actor and director pitches the antihero as a racial outsider. She is compelling, but he is an inconsistent character in a production leached of intrigue

The Guardian - UK

The Dry House review – a mother hits rock bottom in gloriously cast alcoholism drama

The capacity to arrest our own destruction is central in Eugene O’Hare’s stark look at a woman struggling to cope after the death of her teenage daughter

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